heyrabbit

Woah woah Woah. Having too much wealth is bad? What is the standard, then? We should be moderately affluent? Wealth is what's rewarded to those who are productive, and productiveness is the act of achieving life. So are you saying that we should live less, or live more for other people? The problem with being a mindless hedonist is not an excess of money with which to practice being a hedonist, it's the act of being a mindless hedonist. You have a reversal of cause and effect there. Money makes it easier to avoid reality, but T.V.'s don't make you watch them. When you go to the grocery store, you don't just buy buckets of ice cream and candy bars instead of real food and then proceed blame wealth for your crappy health. "it's not my fault" you'd say, " I had too much money". Moey isn't the problem, it's a lack of judgment. If we're going to compensate for a lack of judgment by reducing our options for exercising it, then many of us would have to become bums. Such is the life of a buddhist monk I suppose! They do not trust their minds with money. And,coincidentally, that is exactly what communism seeks to do, to remove the market. So that is a very dangerous philosophy, the camp that says that "money is the root of all evil". The problem is a lack of mind, not "too much" money

It is really flat, yeah, but I'm saying I think it's flat because of their instrument, not the recording. But I don't know anything about production. Even if it comparatively sucks, i don't care becuase I'm not a sound quality snob. the tone is super soft on their guitars, which is going to make it sound flat coming straight out of the amp. I think they did a great song mixing, especially with the vocals and the 2nd guitar parts. without that the song wouldn't be the same. and that's why the song never sounds quite right when played live. does pleasure & the greed still sound mono to you? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxirraApE3k&feature=related dang, they sharpened that tone

What's "overaffluence"?

I figured it out. The problem is that .rm is streaming, right, so it's not actually a file. none of those programs work. I found a neat little program that simply records whatever your sound card is doing. so you just play the file and record. http://www.nbxsoft.com/download.php

What kind of a stupid generalization is that? police are the people who protect our rights, and our rights are what make this a civilization. It looks like he's overreacting but, to be fair, you're obviously not seeing what happened it its full context. For all we know, that officer could have warned those punks every day for a week. And it looks like the kid "didn't hear" the officer when he told them to stop. He was also talking back and resisting when hte officer was trying to confiscate the skateboard. What about the rights of the property owner, who doesn't want punks loitering, scaring off people who want to walk by the pier, and scuffing up the nicely done pavement ? The officer obviously has no tact and shouldn't be threatening little kids, but you can bet those kids won't come back!

What's your avatar, an optical illusion?

That was the style at the time. underdogs came out in the same year and is similar, with all its feedback and raspy condensedness. it sounds like the band is on the other side of a wall

Looks like a neat program, though it doesn't convert .rm and I don't meet the minimum system requirements apaprently It seems like a simply thing to do. I used to have a program that copied your audio output. that's all I need. But where do I get one ?

Yeah Snatch. I think the mid is turned up, which makes it sound all flat. Plus the reverb must be at 11, along with a delay pedal. his voice is also really condensed. it sounds like it's comin out of an FM radio, reminiscent of hearing "that song" on the radio. beautifully produced I think. great mixing

Yeah "That song" is the epitome of alt.rock in the 90's I think. Love most of that album. The Pleasure and the Greed and Thornley were good, but they lacked an ingredient. it's not unlike what happened to Matt's albums after MGB dismantled. I think if he had the right band mate to collaborate, he could produce more songs of that caliber. In loving memory of was very beat driven, and wouldn't have been as successful without the right drumming, sort of like Nevermind. That could have something to do with the drop-off in quality. I do'nt know much about the band or their second guitarist, but In loving memory of was definitely a collaborative effort, as great a guitarist as Ian is.

Daft punk, the video with the loser dog-headed guy

You don't want a shirt like that...

Where is the plane going?

No way. I'm pretty excited about this

Yeah, itt's still on CBS.

How? Someone here must know.

I'm still addicted to this show. am I the only one who watches it?

my pride, my shorts, and the girl in the last picture posted in the Dreams thread.

you aren't living the good life? what are you doing wrong?

No no. vote for Obama. just don't be happy about it

Uh, you know he's a christian and a socialist, right? I don't find it reassuring that people don't seem to think this should disqualify him from becoming president.

Obama. lesser of the two evils.

HoboFactory: If you honestly want to know, I encourage you read "The Romantic Manifesto". It's actually my favorite book, because it explains art and the importance of it. No explanation of mine could explain it quite as well as what's in that book, but I'll do my best to summarize what art is, while paraphrasing the text. Art is solely a human activity. Why? It's existence and significance to man lies in the fact that man is a conceptual being. What is a concept? A concept is "a mental integration of two or more units which are isolated by a process of abstraction and united by a definition". (language). Concepts are what enable man to hold in his awareness much much more than he can perceive at a perceptual level. "Art brings man's concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allows him to grasp them directly, as if they were percepts". When you view a movie, or a painting, or reaad a book - and if you like it - what is happening is that you are perceiving multiple abstractions at once, your values. If you body build, for example, you might experience the values discipline, strength, rationality, etc. The feeling you get is same when you body build as it would be when you listen to a special song, etc. definition: "Art is a selective recreation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value judgements". The purpose of art is literally to integrate the mind by allowing a person to experience his values directly. "By a selective re-creation, art isolates and integrates those aspects of reality which represent man's fundamental view of himself and of existence". Everyone can identify that a song is happy or sad, but some may like it and some may not. Why? Because everyone has different values. There really is not so big a separation between artists and non-artists. Really, there are those who get paid for it and those who don't. That's why I laugh when someone tells me they're an "artist". Welcome to humanity! Most people have some creativity in their lives, to whatever extent that may be. Any person who has designed a building is every bit the artist that Picasso was, except that they'd be better artists. For example, one of my best friend's as told me that he "isn't creative", yet this man goes to the gym every day and creates an awsome body, and it's the most important activity in his life. I view him as more of an artist than the moral degenerate, who lives in a dank basement somewhere, drawing a few circles on a white canvas, declairing it "art", then pricing it at 5 million dollars. Art is one of the best, if not the best, indicators of a person's or culture's health. For example, notice the art of medieval times, the ugly, grotesque gargoyles and compare that to the that of hte renaissance, which depicted strong, powerful men and women. It is not a coincidence that Kurt Cobain's art was depressing, dark and mind-numbing. It's also not a coincidence that Matt Good is bipolar and his music is simple,depressing and his lyrics are evasive and shrill. Since concepts are like a mathematical series of units, there is a distinct correlation between the math in art - in the measurements, in the rhythm of the music, in the color - and with the affect it has on a person's mood. What's the difference between a car alarm and Bach? If I sat you in a room and had you listen to a car alarm for 24 hours, your mind would literally disintegrate! If I had you listen to yankee doodle for the same length of time, you might be less affected. Why? Why is it that you'd likely be fine if I had you listen to Bach for a day? If the math behind the music is too simple, your mind gets frustrated and you become anxious and depressed. If the math challenges the mind, if it requires problem solving, you will integrate and improve your mind. This is why idiots cannot perform concerto's by Rachmaninov. This is why psychologically unhealthy people enjoy simple art. The more confused a person is, the more confused their art looks.(blurry, evasive, scattered). Art literally either integrates or disintegrates the mind and your exposure to it affects your life more than you probably know.

That's creepy. were your eyes open? I've sleep walked into the shower before and turned it on.

Got a watch. That is all